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Thailand will be awash with high speed rail links one day it seems, but which day?

It is strange how many correspondents casually refer to the Shinawatra's as "thieves." Where is the evidence? I am aware of no evidence, apart from their wealth, that bears out these allegations.

There are a lot of wealthy people in the world. Are they all thieves?

Convictions by the Thai legal system are not evidence, allegations of income tax evasion are not evidence. They are evidence only, in the minds of the envious.

Is there a single dishonest act, by either or them, that has actually been documented?

2 minutes ago, KMA said:

My question is how she even traveling from country to country with no passport?

She has a Thai passport, and no doubt will soon get a spare from an amenable country, if one has not been organised for her already.

Cricket matches on the village green, still going on after 10 pm

Does anyone dare compare those beautiful warm long summer days in England with 365 days per year where the temperature never budges out of the 30 to 35 degree temperature range?

14 hours ago, trainman34014 said:

Not a snowballs chance in hell !    They would never agree to extradite her to a Military Junta in any country.

14 hours ago, trainman34014 said:

Not a snowballs chance in hell !    They would never agree to extradite her to a Military Junta in any country.

One of the fundamental principles of International Law is. The legal system of a country will not grant extradition unless the act of the person whose extradition is sought is also unlawful in the that country.

A simple, related, example, a country which does now allow the death penalty, will not grant extradition to someone facing execution at home.

Good luck to the Thai authorities in proving that. Is there any country in which the impugned act is a criminal one? Except Thailand of course. The same might be said about the offence for which the other Shinawatra PM was convicted.

14 minutes ago, johnarth said:

I can't wait for her to say how long a sentence was planned for her, obvious much longer than 10 years I have no doubt some body spilled the beans to her for a price

I don't think payment to anyone would be necessary. M Yingluck has many more devoted followers and supporters than her sombre adversary. But I agree, she knew.and I too anxiously await the "judgment." But who is to say that it has not been rewritten in the light of circumstances, albeit in law irrelevant, after the trial. Such are the ways of what is known as the Thai legal system.

Does anyone actually know where she is? Is it certain that she has left Thailand?

I don't want to be seen as insensitive, or a pedant, but I do want to be of assistance to the sub-editor.

The word "electrocution" was coined at the time of the adoption of the electric chair and is a contraction of the words electric execution.

The sub-editors' scourge is the tautology, and look what he has gone and done.

Does the husband acknowledge that he took five panadols?

3 hours ago, ilostmypassword said:

I think this is a badly worded question. It gives no room for Trump supporters to say that he will hang in there and triumph. Or for that matter, Trump non-supporters who think he will survive his current travails.

How refreshing to have a human being in the White House, the best days American has seen in my long life time. 

Not only will there be a second term, but they might do an FDR and give him  a third. 

What a delight it is to have someone you like at the controls.

Go the Donald.

This no justification, logical or otherwise, to single out a particular element of society, and tax it more heavily than others. Drinkers are human beings too.

Far more logical is an "air" or "water" tax instead. Only then would we have  true democracy.

Perhaps it is necessary to raise taxes to pay for our leaders and their retainers, but it is not necessary that this burden be spread around unevenly.

If the government of the day felt constrained by basic concepts of fairness, all liquor taxes would be removed immediately. Go to it!